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    The Battleship Maine Monument is a memorial marker in Davenport Park, Bangor, Maine. It commemorates veterans of the Spanish–American War, and the loss...
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    Park Monument to victims of Maine in Havana, Cuba, c. 1930 A 6-inch gun from Maine at Fort Allen Park in Portland, Maine U.S. Battleship Maine Monument Key...
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    Línea Calle, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. The American battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing two officers...
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    The USS Maine was one of several new battleships and other warships built by the United States Navy after 1884 to modernize the fleet. The Maine was launched...
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    museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Texas...
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    Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Penobscot County, Maine,...
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    years after the Maine and the Texas were authorized. The battleships in their plan would include ten first-rate long-range battleships with a 17 knots...
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  • efforts to install new monuments. The tablets were (at least partially) constructed from metal salvaged from the battleship USS Maine (ACR-1),[citation needed]...
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    and spider web motif is King's own addition. The bow-plate of the battleship USS Maine, whose destruction in Havana, Cuba, presaged the start of the Spanish–American...
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    coastal monitors and the armored cruiser Maine, which would later be classified a "Second Class Battleship." The 10-inch/31 caliber gun would be the...
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    USS South Carolina (BB-26) (category South Carolina-class battleships)
    USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of...
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    USS Wyoming (BB-32) (category Wyoming-class battleships)
    USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships and was the third ship of the United States Navy named Wyoming, although...
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    USS Virginia (BB-13) (category Virginia-class battleships)
    USS Virginia (BB-13) was a United States Navy pre-dreadnought battleship, the lead ship of her class. She was the fifth ship to carry her name. Virginia...
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  • 1989 60 0-8051-0789-4 National Geographic Production 15419 Search for Battleship Bismarck 1989 0-8051-0858-0 11376 Life of the Treasure Chest 1989 1990...
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    USS South Dakota (BB-57) (category South Dakota-class battleships (1939))
    four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington...
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    The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot...
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  • Museum". USS Hornet Museum. Retrieved 20 September 2016. "Battleship USS Iowa". Battleship USS Iowa. Archived from the original on 2016-09-04. Retrieved...
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    Rising Sun Man, Sailor John A. Kay, enlisted in the Navy. When the Battleship Maine sailed for Havana Harbor in January 1898, Kay was an assistant machinist...
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    force north of Aparri, including what they believed was a Fusō-class battleship. The crew was unable to locate the reported aircraft carrier and Kelly...
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    reported riots in Havana, McKinley agreed to send the battleship USS Maine. On February 15, the Maine exploded and sank with 266 men killed. Public attention...
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    Columbus Circle (category Monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus)
    by Hearst. The statue is a memorial to sailors killed aboard the battleship USS Maine, whose mysterious 1898 explosion in Havana harbor precipitated the...
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    December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban...
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  • the Woman in Back, Spy vs. Spy, and Toughest Miniature Golf Hole 55 3 "Battleship vs. Titanic / Jurassic Parks and Recreation" Kevin Shinick, Justin Becker...
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  • Museums Museum submarines in the United States Indonesian Navy Submarine Monument CB-20 midget submarine page 1996 North Korean Gangneung submarine infiltration...
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    United States Navy Memorial (category Military monuments and memorials in the United States)
    UDT-SEAL Memorial Monuments and memorials on the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy World War II Submarine Torpedo monument Battleship Missouri Memorial...
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    engaged several French coastal batteries and warships, including the battleship Jean Bart. In 1943, Wichita was transferred to the Pacific Theater, where...
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  • Atlantic City streets released in 2006. Baltimore Edition (1997) Bar Harbor, Maine, issued unknown Boston – two editions: Boston, issued in 1994, 1995, 1996...
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    www.bells.org. Retrieved March 15, 2024. Broom, Jack "Memories on Board Battleship," Seattle Times, May 21, 1998. Tsustsumi, Cheryl Lee. "Hawaii's Back Yard:...
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    future wars. He argued particularly for the ability of bombers to sink battleships and organized a series of bombing runs against stationary ships designed...
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    USS Herring (category Ships built in Kittery, Maine)
    was laid down 14 July 1941 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 15 January 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Emilie Spear (née...
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